1. Corporate Finance, Banking &  Financial Services Practice
Peter's corporate finance practice involves acting for lender on a broad range of financing facilities across the credit spectrum. This
Practice provides transactional and advisory services in:

a) Syndicated and bilateral lending (secured and unsecured).
b) Real estate project financing.
c) Acquisition and development loans.
d) Factoring Arrangements.
e) Insurance premium financing.
f) Margin lending.
g) Interest rate swaps.
h) Residential and commercial mortgage loans.
i) Ship financing.
j) Equipment leasing and financing.
k) Financial institutions regulatory practice.

i) Regulatory compliance of dealers in securities
ii) Regulatory compliance of money remittance dealers
iii) Counseling clients in connection with banking and financial services, laws and regulations including:

(1) Bank of Jamaica Act
(2) Securities Act
(3) Financial Institutions Act
(4) Banking Act

l) Pensions
Peter has advised different participants in pension and benefit arrangements including plan administrators, employers, boards of directors, trustees, and investment managers. Issues he has dealt with include:

i) Creation of retirement and superannuation schemes.
ii) Pension fund management arrangements.
iii) Review of pension trust deeds and rules.
iv) Advising on issues of pension plan governance and statutory / regulatory requirements.

2. Intellectual Property / Information Technology
Peter offers a full range of services to protect and exploit trademarks. These services include:

a) Trademark registration in Jamaica, and, with the aid of counterparts, throughout the Caribbean.
b) Providing advice concerning the availability of marks.
c) Devising strategies for the effective national and international registration of available marks.
d) Maintaining trademark portfolios.
e) Advising on licensing opportunities.
f) Transferring trademark rights.
g) Patent registration.
h) Copyright protection.
i) Computer contracts.
j) Know-how agreements.
k) Licensing agreements.
l) Software development, maintenance and support agreements.
m) Ownership, licensing and development of intellectual property rights generally.

3.Corporate & Commercial Practice

a) Formation, incorporation and registration of companies and businesses.
b) Non-disclosure and non-competitive agreements.
c) Liquidation and dissolution.
d) Corporate restructuring, mergers, acquisitions and amalgamations.
e)
Preparing and issuing corporate filings as required by the Office of the Registrar of Companies, Financial Services Commission, Jamaica Stock Exchange.
f) Provision of full corporate secretarial services.
g) Joint venture and shareholder agreements.
h) Management agreements.
i) Cost sharing, agency, marketing and distribution agreements.
j) Employment Contracts / Contracts for services.

4. Real Estate
Peter practices in areas of:

a) Commercial and residential real estate.
b) Buying and selling land.
c) Leasing
d) Mortgage / transfers of land.
e) Residential and commercial real estate developments.

5. Wills & Probate of Estates 
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